rebels, revolutionaries, resisters

After a decade in the works Ken Burns’s new PBS documentary series, The American Revolution will be available for public viewing. 

The series explores America’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence. The American Revolution is an expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and the birth of the United States of America. 

This is a perfectly timed lifeline wonder | wander | women are most grateful for. Shining a bright beacon to rekindle our tired and tested hope as we fight for our democracy across the world. 

our American story - one for all nations

Although it is the story of how Continental America was born and hard fought for - it rings true for nations around the world whose fight for democracy is a constant struggle under continued threat. 

The series follows dozens of figures, giving viewers a chance to experience the war through the memories of the men and women who experienced it. Dealing in real numbers, real people, real facts. 

A lot of which were not made available to the general public or which we are not learning about in school. Even if this is played in the American arena, people from anywhere else can relate to the stories and challenges preserved and portrayed. 

premiers on the 250th anniversary of the start of the war

In the Philippines, the land of our origin - we just celebrated the 53rd anniversary of martial law. Which was declared by Ferdinand Marcos on the eve of September 23, 1972. 

On Sunday September 21, people across the country were back rallying in the streets once more. The corruption and rot seeded back then has only grown through these rough years. Sadly this time, the people power protests turned violent in some pockets and hundreds were harmed and arrested. 

In the US, growing unrest over the bungling bullying in the Trump administration has people out in the streets as well. Protesting a growing authoritarianism that targets innocents at the whim of a despotic and deteriorating degenerate. 

people power protests in the Philippines

The founders felt and understood back then that in order to have a republic that would function for its people, you had to be an involved citizen. You had to care, you had to use your voice - small, medium, and large. 

We hope that the film is instructive and inspiring - that it will ignite urgency, that there's a lot at stake. We can exercise our individual influence - that is enormously important now more than ever actually. 

We come to realize in the course of human storytelling that is profound for an individual not to give into fear - holding on through the entire endeavor until it is seen to its conclusion. 

a corrupt cabal of criminals

That requires wherewithal and a common purpose that says again and again and again in our own history - we are all in this together. 

There is not a better way we believe to codify that sensibility than the document that was the product of 1776 to 1782 that begins with we the people of the United States. 

In order to form a more perfect union because no one is fallible, and no one is perfect. Yet united we are all made stronger and better.